How the vizier made the disciples lose hope of his abandoning seclusion.

The vizier cried out from within, “O disciples, be this made known to you from me,

That Jesus hath given me a such-like message: ‘Be separated from all friends and kinsfolk.

Set thy face to the wall, sit alone, and choose to be secluded even from thine own existence.’

After this there is no permission (for me) to speak; after this I have nothing to do with talk.

Farewell, O friends! I am dead: I have carried my belongings up to the Fourth Heaven,

In order that beneath the fiery sphere I may not burn like firewood in woe and perdition,

(But) henceforth may sit beside Jesus at the top of the Fourth Heaven.”